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In Japanese, there is the interesting situation that native Japanese words (yamato kotoba, kun readings of kanji) are used for the cardinal directions (such as minami for 南, south), but borrowed Chinese words (on readings of kanji) are used for intercardinal directions (such as tō-nan for 東南, southeast, lit. "east-south").
The North East had the highest rate of economic inactivity of the English regions, 25% of the population aged 16 to 64 in Q4 2011. The North East is the most affordable region in the UK. Figures from 2017 indicate it is the UK region with lowest cost of living per household. [60]
The Tartessian or Southwestern script is typologically intermediate between a pure alphabet and the Paleohispanic full semi-syllabaries. Although the letter used to write a stop consonant was determined by the following vowel, as in a full semi-syllabary, the following vowel was also written, as in an alphabet. Some scholars treat Tartessian as ...
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
North Korea: Pyongyang: Chosŏn as called in NK 조선 / 朝鮮 Bukchosŏn 북조선: P'yŏngyang 평양 / 平壌: Korean (Hangul/Hanja) South Korea: Seoul: Hanguk as called in SK 한국 / 韓國 Namhan 남한: Seoul 서울: Korean (Hangul/Hanja) Kosovo [14] Pristina: Kosova Kosovo Косово: Prishtinë Priština Приштина: Albanian ...
Y, a river in the north of Russia. Y, a former census-designated place in Alaska, United States (recently renamed Susitna North) Ý, Vietnamese name for Italy; Å, a village in Andøy Municipality in Nordland, Norway. Å is Danish, Norwegian and Swedish for "brook" or "small river". Å, a village in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland, Norway
England: North Leverton with Habblesthorpe (32 characters) Sulhamstead Bannister Upper End (31 characters) The longest hyphenated name in England is the 29-letter-long name Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe, the name of a tiny village in North Yorkshire. Scotland: Ceann a Tuath Loch Baghasdail (29 characters) Eastertown of Auchleuchries (27 characters)